TEPCO: tests of nationalization

"The nationalization of TEPCO is a possible option," said Koichiro Gemba today, Japanese Minister of National Strategy. This was reported by the Kyodo news agency. "The government could acquire a majority stake of the company that operates the plant in Fukushima and appoint new managers," wrote the Yomiuri, the most popular Japanese newspaper, citing government sources.

The output of Koichiro Gemba was promptly contradicted by other official sources. A Japanese government spokesman said that "no government organization would be thinking of a nationalization." TEPCO has confirmed that it is not aware of any such plan. The alarm, however, continues to be high and, as reported today by the German financial newspaper Handelsblatt, behind the rumors about a possible government control of TEPCO, there would be concerns for "damages to the victims of nuclear catastrophe, which could become very high and impossible to pay for the company that operates the reactors.

I sacrificed Fukushima

"We are staying in the middle." They know what they face: they will be contaminated by radiation. And then there are the explosions that at any moment could wipe them out. But still, to fight against the six reactors crazy. I am fifty TEPCO engineers who volunteered to remain to prevent the merger, the disaster for Japan.

A Fukushima I work eight hundred workers. Most were evacuated, but TEPCO has launched an appeal to engineers: "We ask you to remain at fifty." And they have taken a step forward. No, not for promotion, for an award, because it is useless to hide it: who is today in Fukushima will not have time to enjoy anything.